Waiting Impatiently Video
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Waiting Impatiently: A Yoga Teacher, a Pandemic, and a Monastery
Ian looks like a man who has it figured out. He’s a yoga teacher and a Zen student, the kind of guy people assume lives in peace. He doesn’t. He’s carrying a heartbreak he hasn’t let go of, a past he’d rather bury, and a world that’s about to shut down.
That’s where my debut novel, Waiting Impatiently, begins.
What is Waiting Impatiently about?
When the pandemic closes the world, Ian is forced into the one thing he’s been avoiding: sitting still with himself. In a desperate moment, he arrives at the Monastery, a place where time stands still, and meets a Zen riddle he can’t dodge: Can you manifest your true nature while staring at the pieces of your broken heart?
It’s a story about attachment, self-examination, and the kind of change that arrives whether we’ve asked for it or not.
Where did it come from?
From lockdown, honestly. I’d long been curious what it would be like to live in a Buddhist monastery, alone with my Self. When everyone sheltered in place, I treated the lockdown as a makeshift one. I was living with a friend, and we spent hours in long, wandering conversations, from spiritual attachment to how to make yogurt. The book grew out of that stretch of uncertainty and my own struggle with attachment. I talked more about it in an interview with Cobb Life Magazine.
Watch the promo
Here’s the short promo for the book:
What readers say
Independent Book Review called the novel “thoughtful, raw, and downright engaging”.
Read it
Waiting Impatiently is available through my Amazon author page and on the book’s page. If you want more of Ian’s world, my second novel, Invisible Sun, is a prequel of sorts.
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